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Conlinguistics 101

By • on May 17, 2011

I am very pleased to hereby announce that today I have created a new academic discipline. It’s dedicated to deciphering what the current president

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May 4, 1969: Hit the Highway, Freeway

By • on May 3, 2011

The concrete monstrosity that has long divided Seattle into two absurdly disconnected halves like a brain operation gone horribly awry–a.k.a. Interstate

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Lest We Forget

By • on May 2, 2011

George W. Bush was given an opportunity in October 2001 to have Osama bin Laden handed over by the Taliban to a neutral country, possibly to stand trial,

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April 28, 1987: Benjamin Linder

By • on April 27, 2011

The University of Washington has a long tradition of students and graduates who have bravely traveled to Central America to help improve the lives of ordinary

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April 1, 1974: The Kidnapping of Patricia Davis

By • on April 1, 2011

She used to be such a nice girl. Even though she still lived at home at age 38, and enjoyed the privileged life of a Washington State apple-growing magnate’s

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Seattle’s Roads to Nowhere

By • on March 22, 2011

“What an absolute fiasco.” That’s what many future Seattleites will likely say about the deep-bore tunnel project that’s currently

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A Modest Tunnel Proposal

By • on March 7, 2011

I would like to humbly propose a truly innovative solution to the ongoing controversy over the proposed deep-bore tunnel under downtown Seattle. Here goes:

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February 24, 1966: Hell No!

Along with growing protests against the Vietnam War, resistance to involuntary conscription for U.S. military service gradually became a hot topic nationwide as combat operations began to escalate in Southeast

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February 9, 1971: The SCCC Oriental Student Union Sit-In

“The time of the quiet Asian has passed.” With those words, spoken on the date in focus here by Mike Tagawa, a sophomore at Seattle Central Community College (SCCC), that school’s Oriental

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The Tunnel Contract: Here ‘Tis!

Attention tunnel critics: The complete contract for the deep-bore tunnel is now viewable online in PDF form, courtesy of Stranger news editor Dominic Holden, who’s been filing records requests for

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